Rustlers raided a hen house stealing six chickens but police have launched an investigation into the fowl play.

Officers were called by the victim of the theft from a back garden in Ramsey Road, Ramsey Forty Foot.

The burglary happened between 6pm on Friday (November 11 and 11am the following day.

Police said “unknown thieves stole six chickens from a hen-house in the back garden of a house on Ramsey Road”.

Officers added that the offenders may have entered the garden by climbing a fence from an adjacent field.

And police are also appealing for information about a mindless vandal attack in Ugg Mere Court Road, Ramsey Heights.

The attack happened overnight on Monday (November 14-15)

A car left parked in its owner’s driveway was damaged by an unknown person who used a sharp object to score a scratch along the paintwork the length of the vehicle from the bonnet to the back on the passenger’s side.